The Plantation Mistress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Plantation Mistress write by Catherine Clinton. This book was released on 1984-02-12. The Plantation Mistress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
Mistresses and Slaves
Mistresses and Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mistresses and Slaves write by Marli Frances Weiner. This book was released on 1997. Mistresses and Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation--a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Although divided by race, black and white women were joined by common female experiences and expectations of behavior. Because work and gender affected them as much as race, mistresses and female slaves interacted with one another very differently from the ways they interacted with men. Supported by the women's own words, Weiner offers fresh interpretations of the ideology of domesticity that influenced women's race relations before the Civil War, the gradual manner in which they changed during the war, and the harsher behaviors that resulted during Reconstruction. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Nancy A. Hewitt, and Stephanie Shaw
Within the Plantation Household
Within the Plantation Household - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Within the Plantation Household write by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Within the Plantation Household available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.
Mistress of Riversdale
Mistress of Riversdale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mistress of Riversdale write by Rosalie Stier Calvert. This book was released on 1991. Mistress of Riversdale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A richer reflection of life in early 19th-century Maryland and the Washington environs cannot be found. -- Washington Post Book World
They Were Her Property
They Were Her Property - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook They Were Her Property write by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. This book was released on 2019-02-19. They Were Her Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times “Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective.”—Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
